Sri Lanka Intervention Meeting (SIM)

All over the world Interventional Cardiology is increasingly becoming important in the management of heart diseases. In 2011 for the first time SLHA Annual Academic Sessions held in Colombo, included a pre-congress workshop on Complex Coronary Interventions in which live coronary interventions were demonstrated via audio –visual transmission from the cath lab of a hospital in Colombo to the workshop audience. Local Interventional Cardiologist and experts from neighboring India participated in these live case demonstrations. Through this, the local audience not only was able to witness first hand interventions being done live but also witnessed some new technologies in the intervention field that were not available in the country. These included Rota ablator guided Coronary Total Occlusions were done as well as IVUS guided left main and bifurcation stenting of Coronary Arteries.

Since then, as Interventional Cardiology in Sri Lanka too is now a specialty on its own, the need for a separate meeting like other regional and global such meetings for Intervention Cardiology has been growing. In this context 1st ever Sri Lanka Intervention meeting or SIM was organized by the SLHA in March 2013 marking another very important milestone of SLHA. This now is the latest addition to SLHA’s academic calendar and would be an annual event.

300 Delegates

6 Live Sessions

25 Lectures

Second meeting in 2014 (SIM 2014) was a resounding success with about 300 delegates attending from across the world. It included lectures, panel discussions, symposiums, audio-visual presentation of cases, workshops, live case demonstrations transmitted from local Cath labs as well as live interactive satellite transmissions from overseas.

This is the official event that focuses on the subject of Interventional Cardiology and our aim is to make SIM one of the most sought after intervention meetings in the region of South Asia.